Relationship between cardiac status (CI) and pulmonary shunt (QS/QT) during myocardial revascularisation and early postoperative period

Abstract Physiologically, there is a correlation between cardiac status and pulmonary shunt — cardiac status influences oxygen (0 2 ) content in venous blood (Cv0 2 ) and hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) 1,2 .